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How to teach your girlfriend programming

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Re: How to teach your girlfriend programming

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So you state that from your POV his language reflected that women are not people too ??? That is really great, that you had to make a throw away account to put that out there, it reflects a lot about you trying to raise issue with something you create a strawman for on the first line of your comment. "If we asked the author..." and than you present an imaginary author giving an 'apology'. That is abysmally poor and y…

Well, this happened to be my first comment; not a throwaway account. I was attempting to be fair to the author, assuming his best intentions. A strawman on my part would have been to assume the worst intentions of the author. Nowhere did I claim the author was objectifying his girlfriend. Who is projecting here, exactly? Sexist labels? Tirade? I wasn't upset in my comment at all, nor did I label anyone. You seem to b…

It's out of place that you try to insinuate others are angry after using so much passive aggressive vitriol. It is laughable that you try 'appeal' to constructive dialogue after moving the goal posts so much. I will provide proof of what I state with just one instance of what you typed because I already am wasting way too much time with this. When you said "Nowhere did I claim the author was objectifying his girlfriend." to deny my remark that you did it. Well, you should read your own posts. The one where you write "and he's doing it at the expense of his girlfriend"... there, you can backtrack all you want. I am sure you will try. Sorry if it burns but those are your own words, next time just avoid going back and forth in writing. If yours isn't a throw away account you will probably not do well around here but I am sure it is. Stay well and goodbye.

Re: How to teach your girlfriend programming

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Other than a poor choice of title I literally cannot understand what is objectionable. But somehow it is as objectionable as claiming all men have poor hygiene? I also hate that women are excluded from what they want to do because of sexist bullshit. Please if this is actually sexist, point me to the exact parts or wordings that indirectly imply girlfriends in general are incapable of programming, so that I can never…

Okay, sure. It starts with the title. "How to teach your girlfriend programming" immediately tells women that this article isn't for her; it's for her boyfriend, so he can teach her. The rest of the article regularly enforces this exclusion. He's talking to men. Almost every time he refers to his girlfriend, he says "my girl", which, in the context of a professional article, is belittling. He says "my girlfriend" twi…

I see now what you are objecting to. Thank you so much for taking the time to write it all out.
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